Step by Step: Adding Stripe Payments in Next.js 14
In the ever-changing landscape of app development there’s never been an easier time to integrate a robust payment system 🤑. Whether you’re selling digital downloads or subscriptions Stripe emerges as a leading choice for handling transactions. The combination of Stripe’s API and Next.js 14’s server-side capabilities and API routes offers a powerful path to incorporating a payment system into web apps.
Although Stripe offers quite good documentation I’ve tried to distill the process down to a step by step guide that addressed the stumbling blocks and (time consuming!) hurdles I found along the way.
Here I’ll provide a roadmap for setting up, displaying and processing a one-time payment with Stripe. Along the we’ll learn how to listen to the Stripe webhook and log events to your own transactions database.
STEP 1: Developer Environment Setup
- If you haven’t already: install Node.
$nvm install 20.11.0- Create a Next.js project and navigate to the project directory in the terminal.
- Install Stripe dependencies.
$npm install @stripe/stripe-js @stripe/react-stripe-js
$npm install stripe